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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [275v] (550/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2. The names of Ali Mansur (Mansur-ul-Mulk), C.B.E. (F.O. 126-M.A. 164),
at present Governor-General of Khorrassan. Malmud Bader (F.O. 40-M.A.. 51)
and Fathullah Pakravan (F.O. 169-M.A. 208) have been mentioned as possible
successors to Bayat. there are some grounds for belief, however, that the various
Majlis factions have not been able to come to an agreement over the choice of one
of these and may choose a nonentity incapable, either by past reputation or future
activity, of incurring the displeasure of anyone.
3. The following names were announced in connexion with the Supreme
Economic Council (see paragraph 1 of Intelligence Summary No. 15/45) : The
Prime Minister—honorary President; Dr. Moazzami—President; Imami—
vice-President; Nasir Quli Ardelan—Secretary.
4. Fahimi, Minister without portfolio, has been charged with the
preparation of a bill to amend Dr. Millspaugh’s income tax law.
5. According to the Minister of Court, the Soviet Ambassador has
complained about an attack by Persians on a Russian officer in Tabriz which
resulted in his death, an assault by Persians on a party of Russian school children
in Tabriz and the posting up of anti-Communist slogans on the walls at Isfahan.
A pp ointments.
6 . Abdul Ahad Dara to be Persian Consul in Istambul.
Jamshid Khabir to be Deputy Director of Department General of Supply.
Mustafa Quli Ram to be Director of the Road Transport Board, vice
Muhammad Hussein Jehanbani resigned.
Resignations, Retirements.
7. Sartip Gulshayan, the late Military Governor of Tehran, suspended from
his duties on account of the fracas outside the Majlis on the 6 th March, has been
placed en disponibilite.
Colonel Shahrais, acting Military Governor of Tehran since the suspension
of Sartip Gulshayan, has submitted his resignation to the Ministry of War.
Persian A rmy.
8 . A battalion of approximately 300 strong has been moved from Ahwaz to
Khorramshahr. They will take over the guarding of the port installations and
stores at Fahliyeh creek. This has been done at the request of His Majesty’s
Embassy, whose desire it is to see the Persian Government and Persian Army’s
authority re-established in areas where the British forces have been in occupation
and also to bring home to the Persian Government a sense of their joint responsi
bilities, as Allies, for the safeguarding of our commuications in Persia.
9. The Chief of the General Staff, General Arfa, is uneasy about the
situation which will arise in the North when the Soviet troops are" withdrawn.
(He added parenthetically and gloomily, “ if ever they do withdraw.”) He
envisages their stealing silently away overnight and then returning to “ restore
the situation,” i.e., to suppress the disorders which will have broken out at their
instigation. To forestall this he is busy assembling and training a brigade to
occupy Gurgan (where the Yamut Turcomans have come heavily under the influence
of the Soviets) and a mechanised brigade which, plus the column ordered to stand
fast near Bukan, will be required to occupv Azerbaijan.
Tehran, 22nd April, 1945.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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